Universal Health Coverage: Is it possible for Nigeria?
By Dr. Abiodun Awosusi I walked into a pediatric unit of a teaching hospital in Nigeria a few years ago to review a patient. On the first bed was a[…]
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The Bad, The Bad, And The Ugly – 10 Hard Facts On The Global Effects Of Tobacco
By Bankole Oluwafemi Tobacco kills. Pure and simple. Yet many people choose to overlook that fact, choosing to watch their own lifespans float up in smoke, with every puff. But the[…]
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POST MDG: WHAT SHOULD NIGERIA FOCUS ON
By Dr. Maimunat Ahmadu Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, for short have been on the hearts, minds and lips of every country in the world with emphasis placed on low and[…]
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The Doctor Ordered Primary Health Care
By Temie Giwa The International Finance Corporation claims that $4.5 billion investment is needed to repair Nigeria’s health system and deliver good health care for people. This isn’t news. Anyone[…]
Lead and Mines: Saving Zamfara’s Children
By Tayo Olaleye In a small mining town in the North of Nigeria a few years ago, 100 children died rapidly within days and weeks of each other. No[…]
Ten Thousand For Saving Lives
Every year Nigeria loses an estimated 59,000 women to predictable and easily prevented deaths. Each week, Nigerian families lose 1,131 mothers, friends, sisters and daughters to pregnancy. The children these[…]
Herbal Medicine in Nigeria
By Tayo Olaleye A while ago, I came across this article in which Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, the present Minister of Health, proposed that traditional medicines should be incorporated into the[…]
Lead and the Kids
By Oluwatobi Odetola A low rumble in the dust of the North has morphed into a mighty roar into our national consciousness. Better late than never, some would say. Since[…]
Would You Like To Be Healthy? Doctor’s Note
By Oyedeji Aderemi He was just 28 and became unemployed when his sight started failing him, his means of livelihood was cut off and his ability to seek medical help[…]
Rethinking Health Care Delivery Part 2
By Hezekiah Shobiye In Part 1 of this series, I wrote that the Nigerian health care system is unresponsive to both the medical and non-medical needs of its patients; the Nigerian[…]